The sharp eyed reader will notice some subtle changes to these pages. I’ll explain what’s happened;

I’ve moved this blog from it’s previous location, onto another server, so that I could use WordPress, which is a tool for creating blogs. This makes it easier to manage and keeps the page size down by archiving older posts off automatically.

Also my wonderful beautiful readers can now leave comments, telling me how great I am, and how much they love me. This is good, I did it all for you. L eave a comment or two, why not, who does it hurt eh? Don’t make me beg.

As the new server is faster and on a better connection, it should speed things up as well, which *thud*

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……

Sorry, I bored myself to sleep there.

Nothing more to see here.

Being a sentimental sort I just couldn’t throw away the bear I’ve had for 30 years, so he was sat on a shelf in my office.

Wilf the dog managed to get hold of him and have his wicked way, it wasn’t pretty.

Poor old Pooh.

I made this to try to improve my photoshop skills, using some blood spatter effects I found by smashing words into my keyboard on a search engine. It would be rude not to link to Peterpson’s blood spatter brushes since I’ve benefited from them

Why do a lot of photographers think anyone will be interested in a photograph of flowers? It’s a flower, what’s the big deal? I find these things interminably boring myself.

Ha! IN YOUR FACE!

See how I confound expectations by saying I don’t like pictures of flowers, then post a picture, of flowers!

It’s like that film Crash where that actor Matt Dillon plays a caring son of an invalid father, and we like him. But then, oh no! It turns out he is a horrible racist, we definately don’t like him. Then worse – he sexually assaults a woman – we hate him! Then suddenly, BAM! The storytelling confounds expectation, as Matt Dillon’s character risks his life and helps the very same woman he assualted when she is involved in a car crash, so how can he be a bad person, we should like him again surely?

No, because he’s a racist, and a disgusting pervert. I’ll shut up now.  Still at least we are treated like total morons by the writer and director.  To think they won an Oscar too,  reedickularse.

After my foray into critiquing films that have been out for ages and no-one really cars about, I’m back on safer ground posting photos. This was taken with a 50mm lens reversed onto the camera body with a reversing ring, focused manually at f/22 and shot with flash.

ooooh.

For the past two weeks I’ve been lugging all my camera gear into work to try to catch a sunset on the beach at the end of the day. Every day it’s either been cloudy, or I’ve arrived 5 minutes too late

Finally yesterday I managed to get there in time – the colours weren’t that exciting compared to some other recent nights, but I was just happy to get a result.

I used 2 Cokin ND grads on this to try to even out the exposure, which has resulted in a dark top corner where the graduation was too severe, other than that I’m happy with what I got.

The eagle eyed amongst you will notice it’s Clevedon Pier – again. I’m turning into a one trick pony, and it’s not even a very good trick.